In 1958, at the Public Relations Department of the New York Port Authority, glass-ceiling breaker Lee Jaffe inspires the young women around her, especially Maggie Gleason. But the disappearance of Pauline Moreau, whom Lee had sheltered under her wing, causes Maggie to rethink her assumptions about love, work, and ambition. Careers for Women is a masterful novel about the difficulties of building a career, a dream, or a life--and about the powerful small mercies of friendship and compassion.

Devoting herself to an intellectual life and the self-possessed lover with whom she performs spoken-word poetry readings, a college student is drawn into the lives of a sophisticated journalist and her husband before the increasingly intimate relationship tests the boundaries of her resolve. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century.

Sixteen-year-old Murdo and his father, Tom, are emotionally stunned by the recent deaths of Murdo’s mother and sister. They leave their native Scotland to visit relatives in the southern United States. Along the way, a chance encounter with a family of zydeco musicians sparks a connection between Murdo’s budding but undeveloped musical talent and a richly-spiced stew of southern American folk music—a connection that may help him to bridge the gap between cultures, as well as the one between youth and adulthood.

Moving to Hawaii with her family to start over in the wake of an infidelity, Nancy resolves to build a happier life and forges a close friendship with a charismatic teacher, Ana. But her new friend gradually reveals a psychologically manipulative nature.

Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father’s condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief.

In this stunning debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence.

SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club solved their final mystery and unmasked the Sleepy Lake monster—another low-life who would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling kids...1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It’s their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world.

For one year, 83-year-old Hendrik Groen keeps a diary of life as an “inmate” in an Amsterdam nursing home with both hilarious and deeply moving results. Hendrik (an alias for a famous writer, leading to much speculation) chafes at the countless, seemingly meaningless regulations and decides to form a group with five like-minded friends: the Old but Not Dead Club, who go on excursions together. Difficult moments are interspersed with Groen’s moving portrayals of the strong bonds the group has developed, biting wit, political observations, and comic take on aging and all it entails.

When Billie Flanagan goes missing during a hike in California's Desolation Wilderness, her devastated husband and daughter deal with the trauma in very different ways, before they are forced to come to terms with her secretive nature.

Raised in America, the multiracial daughter of a mother from Johannesburg struggles with her mother's terminal cancer and her own need to find love and a place to belong, quests shaped by losses, changes in her sense of identity, and her own unexpected motherhood.

A tale inspired by Manhattan's 19th-century witchcraft revival finds a celebrated teahouse proprietress and a gifted medium teaming up with a dream interpreter in the aftermath of a psychic colleague's disappearance.